A new global dataset, of more refined data on trials, truth commissions and amnesties, collected as part of a collaborative project (funded by the National Science Foundation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK) with a team at the University of Minnesota.

This academic resource contains 2,367 scholarly works on transitional justice, organized by topic and region.

Authoritarian Regime and Transition Type Data (ARTT)

The ARTT contains data on the length and type of authoritarian regimes and the type of transition in 91 democratic transitions from 1970-2004. ARTT potentially has numerous applications. It is designed, in particular, to test whether the type of authoritarian regime, the length of that regime, or the type of transition to democracy affect specific components of the democratization process or decisions of new democratic leaders. I compiled this data in conjunction with the Transitional Justice Data Base Project. The data can be found below in an Excel file, and a user’s manual that outlines the case selection, coding definitions for each variable, and case summaries from which the coding decisions are made, is also included.
ARTT DatasetARTT User’s Manual

U.S. News & World Report Historical Liberal Arts College and University Rankings

Since 1983, the magazine U.S. News and World Report has been ranking US universities and colleges. While I do not in anyway endorse the specific methodology used to construct these rankings, I know that many academic institutions and scholars use these rankings in their research and institutional assessment. I was in turn frustrated that historical rankings were not easily available anywhere online. The spreadsheets below contain all of the rankings from 1985-present for liberal arts colleges and from 1983-present for universities. I only included those institutions specifically ranked (not simply allocated to “tiers” or “quartiles”) and only the top 50 universities. The data for liberal arts colleges were compiled from the actual articles releasing the data each year (any errors in entry are my own). The data for universities were compiled from existing online sources with the assistance of Arjun Khandelwal of Haverford College. The second tab of each spreadsheet includes specific notes on the rankings for each year and sources.